The French team will face Northern Ireland on June 8 in Lille for their final preparation match before heading to the United States for the 2026 World Cup (June 11-July 19), announced the president of the French Football Federation, Philippe Diallo, on Thursday.
“We will face Northern Ireland who was defeated by Italy in the playoffs on June 8 in Lille after playing against Ivory Coast on June 4 in Nantes,” he detailed following an executive committee meeting of the FFF in Paris.
Departure for the United States on June 9 Didier Deschamps’ team will fly to the United States on the afternoon of June 9, where they will stay in Boston and train at Babson College, a private business school located about thirty minutes from the center of the major Massachusetts city.
As the top seed in Group I, the French team will play their three group stage matches on the East Coast of the United States, facing Senegal on June 16 in the suburbs of New York, Iraq on June 22 in Philadelphia, and Norway on June 26 in Boston (all three matches will kick off at 9:00 PM Paris time). Didier Deschamps will announce the list of players selected for the World Cup, co-hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada, on May 14.
